[MacDV] Cleaner 6.0.1: QT SV3 Large Dl v's WMV WM7 Large Dl

[Mark M. Florida]

Back to your original post (see below) -- you had an issue with the
*QUALITY* rather than *FILE SIZE*, correct?  The previous tip I offered
about the audio would help get the file size down, but won't improve the
video quality.  My bad.

If you look at the presets in Cleaner, the Windows Media file has almost
TWICE the data rate as the QuickTime Sorensen 3 preset (this is for PAL,
right?).  If you set the video bitrate in the QuickTime preset to match the
Windows Media preset (1440 kb/s), I'm sure it will look just as good (and,
unfortunately, the file will be just as big).

Hope that helps.

- Mark


On 3/23/04 10:11 AM, YangZone at aol.com at YangZone at aol.com wrote:

> On my Powerbook 800 1GB,  OS 10.3.3, I have been using Cleaner to compress my
> DV file for download. For the same category (large download) the Windows Media
> result is consistently better quality (very watchable in all screen sizes)
> than the QuickTime result. I get a occasional artifacting washing across
> frames in the QT movie (unusable). There are no errrors reported after
> compressing.
> 
> I would have expected the opposite: ie QuickTime to be superior.
> 
> Any ideas? (I have not tried Compressor yet.)
> 
> PJ